📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Le Domaine provincial de Chevetogne is a big centre for environmental education and social tourism. There is a huge park situated on 550 acres and a modest castle.
Pupils from primary and secondary schools come there to participate in activities focusing on discovering the nature and rural way of life. During the summer, many kids and families make a one-day excursion to the Domaine or stay there for holidays to do sports, picnics, observe nature.
Motivated and professional staff from Le Domaine de Chevetogne hopes to share their passion for the environment with international volunteers.
This year, the workcamp will be running for the 6th time.
💼 What the programme involves
With the help of technical leader, the volunteer’s crew will create a vegetal roof to embellish and insulate “the kitchen garden’s hut” located in the forest. You’ll also make 3 wooden bridges to help the hikers of the domain to cross a little brook.
BEWARE: This workcamp is only about manual and outdoor tasks and the work might be exhausting sometimes.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In a lovely cottage in the middle of the domain with beds, a kitchen and a bathroom with hot shower.
Self-catering, enjoy the kitchen life and bring your favourite recipes!
Volunteers must notify beforehand about specific diet.
📍 About the location
Le Domaine de Chevetogne is located in the deep countryside. By choosing this workcamp, the volunteer decides to live in the nature. All around, there are fields, woods and small villages. Wild animals (deer, foxes or wild pigs) are very close.
As the domain is also a tourist centre, there are plenty of opportunities for entertainment: outdoor swimming pool, football fields, minigolf, and tennis or basketball playgrounds…
During the weekend, it will be possible to organize cultural visits and to travel to the biggest Belgian cities. The town of Ciney is 10 kilometers away from the Domain of Chevetogne. From there, it is very easy to reach bigger urban centres such as Namur (25 km), Brussels (80 km) or Liège (90 km).
http://www.domainedechevetogne.be/ - check for nice pictures and general information.
⚠️ Requirements
150 € of participation fee; leisure time activities are covered.
ℹ️ Additional information
PRE-CAMP SESSION INCLUDED IN THE PROJECT DURATION
Location : Marche-en-Famenne
Dates: from Friday 05th to Saturday 06th of August
Purpose: the pre-camp gathers the volunteers from different projects. The participation in the pre-camp is compulsory and free of charge. It is a unique opportunity for the volunteers to meet and to attend different workshops on group dynamic, intercultural education and volunteering awareness. The pre-camp lasts from Friday evening to Saturday afternoon. On Saturday, the volunteers will travel together to their camp location (the cost of this train ticket is covered by CBB).
There will be limited Internet access during the camp available just from time to time.
Please take working clothes with you and “working boots”. Check if you have something suitable for a rainy weather (we never know in Belgium…).